Calibration of area based diameter distribution with individual tree based diameter estimates using airborne laser scanning |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Nokia Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland;2. IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain;1. Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, The University of Melbourne, Australia;2. Airborne Research Australia, School of the Environment, Flinders University, Australia;3. Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Diameter distribution is essential for calculating stem volume and timber assortments of forest stands. A new method was proposed in this study to improve the estimation of stem volume and timber assortments, by means of combining the Area-based approach (ABA) and individual tree detection (ITD), the two main approaches to deriving forest attributes from airborne laser scanning (ALS) data. Two methods, replacement, and histogram matching were employed to calibrate ABA-derived diameter distributions with ITD-derived diameter estimates at plot level. The results showed that more accurate estimates were obtained when calibrations were applied. In view of the highest accuracy between ABA and ITD, calibrated diameter distributions decreased its relative RMSE of the estimated entire growing stock, saw log and pulpwood fractions by 2.81%, 3.05% and 7.73% points at best, respectively. Calibration improved pulpwood fraction significantly, which contributed to the negligible bias of the estimated entire growing stock. |
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| Keywords: | Forestry Laser scanning Calibration Combination Estimation Accuracy |
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